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Oscar-winning editor Tom Cross, ACE on editing Damien Chazelle's "Babylon"

Art of the Cut

CHAPTER

The Purpose of Silence in Babylon

"Babylon 5" is a film full of different styles. Damien loves things sonically we're cutting and when we're on the stage with that sound to me, he loves things loud but reasonable. Like he believes in letting the audience reset and letting it breathe a little bit." "I think this movie wants to be in your face and explosive, but I don't think doing three hours of that would accomplish the storytelling as well as finding the peaks and valleys," she said.

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